How much would achievement rise if students were on task ten more hours a week?
Every campus loses instruction time to low-level disruption. Academics and discipline are the same problem.
Take your class back.
Classroom management training for K-12 schools and districts, taught by a former principal and assistant superintendent. Your teachers leave with a system that is consistent and predictable, and strategies they will use the next school day.
Time To Teach®, the classroom management system trusted by more than 200 districts for over 30 years. Now booking the 2026-27 school year.
Dr. Johnny Alvarado, speaking in the Central Valley
On-site training days, or a live seminar
A resource manual for every participant
Optional graduate credit through UMass Global
Classroom management is one of the most measurable levers a school can pull.
These are the figures principals bring to the board. Each one has a source.
+20%achievement lift from systematic classroom managementMarzano, 2003
2xthe impact of teacher actions compared with curriculum policy aloneMarzano, 2003
10 daysof instructional time lost each year to disruptionKraft, 2021
0.52effect size, above the one-year-of-progress benchmarkHattie, Visible Learning
Four questions principals are asking right now
He asked them himself as a principal and as an assistant superintendent. If one of these sounds like your campus, the conversation is worth having.
What could you accomplish if discipline challenges dropped by seventy percent?
Strong instruction without a working management system stays undelivered. He puts the system in place, and your teachers carry it forward.
Is teacher retention starting to keep you up at night?
Classroom management, or the lack of it, is the most cited reason educators leave the profession. The fix is teachable, and it is fast.
Did your last PD investment change Monday morning?
Most professional development inspires for a day, then fades. This one is built around what teachers can use in their very next class period, and the 2+1 model leaves your leadership team with the plan to keep it going.
This was the best logical presentation on discipline I have had in twenty-three years of teaching. I have practical ideas I can use immediately.
Next live seminar
Denver, Saturday, February 27, 2027
One Saturday of Time To Teach classroom management at the DoubleTree by Hilton Denver Cherry Creek. Seat + 4 graduate credits is $499 through February 5, and those credits cover 60 of Colorado's 90 renewal hours.
455 S Colorado Blvd, Denver. Check-in 8:00 AM, training 8:30 to 3:30.
What your teachers take home
Concrete techniques change classrooms. After one day, every teacher in your building leaves with the same playbook, ready for the next class period.
- How to detect and correct problems without stopping teaching
- How to avoid power struggles and set effective limits
- Fifteen desk arrangements for maximum performance
- How to teach students to behave in class and in social settings
- How to never give multiple warnings or repeated requests again
- How to firmly but fairly carry out disciplinary actions
- How to build trust with the most challenging students
A research synthesis of over 100 studies found that teachers' actions in their classrooms have twice the impact on student achievement as school policies regarding curriculum, assessment, or community involvement.
Marzano, R. J. (2003). What Works in Schools. ASCD.
Never lose your cool again.
When a student challenges you in front of the class, you have about five seconds to respond. The Teacher's Diffuser Library is the cheat sheet for those five seconds: more than 50 proven phrases that end a confrontation before it begins. It's free.
- Exact phrases for the most common student challenges
- What to say when you don't know what to say
- How to keep your authority without raising your voice
- Drawn from 30 years of classroom practice
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Three ways to bring classroom management to your school
Every one of them is the same Time To Teach system. The difference is how much of it your school carries on its own afterward.
Classroom Management Training Day
Dr. Alvarado trains your whole staff in one day on site: self-control, rules and procedures taught as Teach-To's, calm responses to challenges, classroom arrangement, and relationships. Teachers use it the next school day.
One day, on site. Resource manual for every participant.
See the training day2+1 Leadership Model
Two days with your leadership team first. They learn the system, then build your school's own plan with him: the Teach-To list, the refocus area, the flow chart, the data. Then one day with the full staff, who get the system and your plan together.
Three days, on your schedule. For a principal who wants the training still in place in May.
See the 2+1 modelTrain the Trainer for Your School or District
He certifies up to 20 of your own educators as Time To Teach trainers, in your building. They train your staff on your schedule for two years, with their own training portal and the Time To Teach team a phone call away.
Two to three full days. For a district that wants the expertise to live on its own staff.
See train the trainerTake the training home.
Books, audio, and streaming video that keep the day's strategies in front of your teachers all year. Shipping is free in the continental United States.
Thirty years in Central Valley schools, on both sides of the office door.
Dr. Johnny Alvarado started teaching middle and high school in Sanger Unified in 1995. He went on to be a principal in Clovis Unified and Fresno Unified, director of charter schools and an executive leadership coach at the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, chief academic officer at Selma Unified, and assistant superintendent at Parlier Unified.
He has sat in the principal's chair the week after a training when nothing stuck. That is why he trains the way he does: practical tools, practiced out loud, and a plan your leadership team owns before he leaves.
Dr. Johnny AlvaradoNational Time To Teach Trainer
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What teachers say afterward
The classroom management seminar was one of the most immediately useful workshops I've taken to date. Even after 20 years of education.
I was going to retire this year, tired of all the nonsense. This seminar gave me great ideas. I think I'll be around a few more years. Thank you.
I've been around the block a few times and I've never seen anything like this. You get tools and strategies you can apply immediately, as in the very next day.
Not ready to book yet? Take the Diffuser Library with you.
More than 50 phrases your teachers can use Monday morning. Free, and delivered right away.
If schools were permitted just one training, this is the one.
Fewer discipline challenges. More time to teach. Classroom rapport restored. One on-site day, or a 2+1 that leaves your leadership team with the plan, and strategies that travel back to every classroom in your building.
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